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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND EXTENSION EDUCATION 

BUREAU OF REHABILITATION 



NEW OPPORTUNITIES 

FOR 

PERSONS DISABLED 

IN INDUSTRY OR 

OTHERWISE 



By Act of the Legislature, May 13, 1920 

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
T^ECEIVED 

NQV301921 

DOCUMENTS uV.dlON 






^ 1 Opportunities provided by law 

^_ By an act of the Legislature, all physi- 
cally handicapped persons residing in the 
State of New York, who are incapacitated 
for remunerative occupations are entitled 
to the services of the Bureau of Rehabili- 
tation, except as follows : 

a Aged or helpless persons requiring 
permanent custodial care, or blind per- 
sons under the care of the State Com- 
mission for the Blind ; or 

b Any person in any state institution 
or confined in any correctional or 
penal institution ; or 

c Epileptic or feeble-minded persons 
or any person who, in the judgment of 
the Commissioner of Education, may 
not be susceptible of rehabilitation ; or 
d Persons of the age of 14 years 
and under. 
All other physically handicapped per- 
sons residing in the State of New York, 
who are citizens of the United States or 
any person who has declared his intention 

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of becoming a citizen, and who is and has 
been domiciled within the State for one 
year or more, is entitled to vocational re- 
habilitation. 

2 Services of the bureau 

Physically handicapped persons may 
make application to the nearest office of 
the Bureau of Rehabilitation and receive 
the following service: 

a Helpful counsel concerning re- 
training for the former occupation or 
a new occupation. 

h The opportunity to enter upon a 
course of training in a trade, technical, 
agricultural or commercial school ; a 
correspondence course, or placement 
for training in an industry which will 
be suitable for each particular in- 
dividual. 

c Kindly supervision and guidance 
during this course of training, in order 
that the person being trained may re- 
ceive the greatest benefit therefrom. 

d When the course of training has 
been completed, the Bureau of Re- 
habilitation will endeavor to secure 



positions for those who are capable of 
engaging in remunerative occupations. 

e Advice and assistance in securing 
artificial limbs and other orthopedic 
and prosthetic appliances to be paid for 
in instalments at the minimum cost. 

3 Money benefits for physically handi- 
capped persons while in training 

a The Bureau of Rehabilitation will 
pay the tuition and for necessary sup- 
plies and any necessary incidental 
traveling expenses of physically handi- 
capped persons during the peri^ of 
training. .. 4 ^^ 

/; Physically handicapf^g^persons 
eligible under the •rMgJ^flitalion act, 
who were injuj^lffllh^r received com- 
pensatior^iH^del^he compensation act, 
may 4iiJqtfji^ additional compensation 
wj^i iTCcessary for the purpose of 
^Aijylinlenance, but not to exceed $io a 
\ week, for not more than twenty weeks. 

c The Bureau of Rehabilitation will 
endeavor to secure financial assistance 
from suitable sources for physically 



handicapped persons who arc being 
trained for remunerative occupations, 
and who were not covered by the com- 
pensation law at the time of their 
injury. 

4 Early application 

Physically handicapped persons eligible 
for vocational rehabilitation should make 
application to the Bureau of Rehabilitation 
as early as possible after receiving an in- 
jury which may incapacitate them for re- 
munerative occupations. They may make 
this application themselves, or the applica- 
tion may be made by the employer, an in- 
surance company, a friend, a hospital, a 
physician, a social worker, or an interested 
citizen. In so far as possible, the Bureau 
of Rehabilitation wM have its agents call 
upon physically handicaoped persons seek- 
ing vocational rehabilitation in hospitals or 
in their homes, when they are not able to 
come to the offices of the Bureau. 

Application should be made to that office 
of the Bureau of Rehabilitation which is 
nearest to the residence of any one seeking 
vocational rehabilitation. 



5 Offices of the Bureau of Rehabilitation 

Albany, Education Building, 

District Director, William Noyes 

Buffalo, 451 Main st,. 
District Director, Sydney H. Coleman 

New York City, 118 E. 28th st., 
District Director, Frederic G. Elton 

Syracuse. 433 S. Salina st., 

District Director, Joseph J. Endres. 
Acting 

Director, Bureau of Rehabilitation, 
R. M. Little 

118 E. 28th St., New York City 




019 595 495 1 



